Night Support Worker

Voyage Care; Taunton; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced pay for evenings/weekends

Overtime premium

Stream pay access

Blue Light Card

24/7 doctor line

Cash plans for colleagues

Retirement leave

Long service awards

Job summary

Voyage Care in Taunton is seeking a Night Support Worker to assist with bedtime routines, personal care and regular checks overnight, with light domestic duties in spare time.

You will join a busy residential service near the town centre, described as an active, welcoming environment with training opportunities and career progression within a sector-leading organisation. DBS checks and references are required.

Job description

Night Support Worker – Taunton - £13.18 ph

Typical Shifts are: Monday - Sunday 20:30-08:00

Join Voyage Care and Feel Valued, we reward your dedication with:

• Enhanced evening and weekend pay at an additional 50p per hour (Ts & Cs apply)
• Premium overtime rates at an additional £1 per hour (Ts & Cs apply)
• Stream – giving you the flexibility to draw upon up to 40% of your pay, as it is earned.
• Funded Blue Light Card – hundreds of discounts at high street retailers etc.
• 24/7/365 doctor line for our colleagues and their families
• Access to cash plans for our colleagues, which also covers their families
• Enhanced retirement leave
• Long service awards

We’re on the hunt for genuinely caring, hands‑on Night Support Workers with a passion for enhancing the quality of life of the people we support. Our lovely residential service close to the centre of Taunton is full of character and is described as a very active service. With large gardens and its own training kitchen and art room, it has a welcoming and friendly environment, you can be sure that no two days will be the same!

As a Night Support Worker you’ll be enhancing the lives of people we support by assisting with bedtime routines, including personal care and completing regular checks throughout the night. You will also be expected to complete light domestic duties in any spare time.

This is an amazing role for someone who is looking to really make a difference to someone's life and to help them grow in confidence and independence so that they meet their goals, whether this be making dinner by themselves or going on holiday.

We’re interested in our Support Workers having both the right experience and the right values. This is why at this service our Support Workers should ideally hold a full UK driving license, be resilient, flexible and composed in their approach, have experience with following Positive Behaviour Support plans and reflective practice as well as experience working with individuals requiring enhanced support, including behaviour's of distress, mental health conditions, autism and people who have experienced trauma.

Why choose us?

We embrace people’s differences and encourage you to Be You, and so long as you’ve got the passion to make someone’s life better, we can give you all the skills and development opportunities you need to build a great career.

We encourage our staff to Grow Together through our excellent training programme, starting at induction and following you through your career, with opportunity for promotion and progression as well as job security in a sector leading organisation.

We have a fantastic range of benefits for our staff and we offer sector leading career progression, so

make a real difference to the lives of the people we're supporting!

All applicants and subsequent job offers will be subject to satisfactory DBS checks and references.